Stimulating Teal-curiosity in an MBA Programme
You never know who's going to become so interested in stories of the three Teal breakthroughs that they don't want to leave the workshop!... More
Matt Black Systems
Reinventing Work – Curiosity into Action in the South West of England
With curiosity and energy, noticing together how we think about organisations is a key action step to reinventing work.... More
The Paradox of Humanity in Matt Black Systems’ Self-Management (Part 3)
Lisa Gill and Nick Parker
By Lisa Gill and Nick Parker for Enlivening Edge UK-based manufacturing company Matt Black Systems has been operating as a self-managing compan... More
Walking the Talk of Self-management with RSA Reinventing Work Network
How did people fare walking the talk of self-management at RSA's latest Reinventing Work Network event using Open Space Technology? Lisa Gill reflects.... More
Self-managing Organization at Matt Black Systems (Part 2)
Nick Parker and Lisa Gill
By Nick Parker and Lisa Gill for Enlivening EdgeMoving on from the introduction to Matt Black Systems in the last edition of Enlivening Edge, we now bri... More
Self-managing Organization at Matt Black Systems (Part 1)
Lisa Gill and Nick Parker
Reading the literature on self-managing organizations there is little, if any, reference to such organizations existing in the UK. It came as a bit of a surprise to find Matt Black Systems, a small company based in Poole in Dorset, had been self-managing since 2003.... More
RSA Fellows Form New Network To Boost Next-Stage Organisations
By Judy Rees for Enlivening EdgeFifty RSA Fellows and friends squeezed into a City of London meeting room recently for a buzzing event to launch a brand-new... More
Business thinker Gary Hamel tells BBC’s ‘Companies without Managers’ how residual beliefs sabotage self-management
The BBC has added to the growing buzz around successful self-managed organizations with its broadcast of a compelling 30-minute radio programme on ‘Companies wi... More